The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-24
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

10 iiiAASliS plOpoS
to make a law that shall protect p:
terms and models for the metal ind,
try.
1t costs about one and one-h;
cs cents a pound to manufacture "suea
70 inc" by the secret formula which is
use.
- -Side-saddles were first used
ID England in 1888. Up to that tin
ladies rode on horseback just as IL
J. men.
h Bank note engraving is said I
have been carried to greater perfe,
l. ton in the United States than IN,
where else in the world.
h "A white owl flew aboard a steame
from Hull, England, while sever hun
e dred and fifty miles from land, recent
~, and was brought to Boston.
c The first triple expansion engin
built in the United States was from tn,
t Goss Machine Engine Works, Bath
} Me-. and was put on board the steamer
Meteor.
There must be some profit in five.
cent music, for Il man who deals in il
and sells nothing else, has taken a
store on Broadway, N. Y, at a yearly
rental Of six thousand five hundred dol
lars.
-Gcneral Annenkoff, who is build
ing the Russian railroad at Bokhara, is
Il man Of tifty-tive years, full Of yigor,
energy and hope. His wife is less than
half his age and is a very wealthy Ger
man lady.
"A bald eagle killed recently near
Santa Rosa, Cal, measured seventy
e1ght inches from tip to tip of his
wings, and his t%alons, when opened,
measured seven and a quarter inches.
-- Chicago Herald.
The bounty law passed by the Mon
tana Legislature gives on mountain
lions and bears three dollars, wolves
two dollars, COYOTES one dollar, prai-
Fie dogs ten cents, and ground squir-
ielo I'VE cents each.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial Adre1tiser says of Mrs.
Wilson, who is the sister of P. P. Bliss:
"NNith a voice sweet and of great
strength, she moves at will an audience
to tears or high resolve"
Edward Payson Weston, the father
OF long distance walking, has again
returned to journalism, his original
occupation, and he is now a member of
the staff of one Of the morning papers
this city.-M. Y. Herald.
The work performed by the human
body in a day in circulating the blood.
II breathing and in other processes is
equal to that of twenty-five horse power
or one minute, Of sufficient to light q F.,
incandcscent lamp contin- /
=,
English horticulturists have redis-
covered an old-fashioncd flower, a dat S
odil, which differs from all known DAFT
odils. Its blossoms are of a clear, q
chrome yellow, and it has been J
allied Narcissus cyclamineus, on ac- ,
cunt of its refleNed perianth. /
The number of horses exported 5
rom the port of New York during the g
four years, and their value, was as h
In 1888, so head; value, $751; 0
In 1884, 4Ss head; value, $751; p
In 1885, 375 head; value, $143,- ii
In 1886. 3SS head; value, $780, a
So. b
The Russian Empress is n of the h
lost active OF women. She rises early
goes to bed late, walks a great
cal, reads enormously, is passionately
md of dancing and dress, and still al
nds time for works of charity, which o,
lie generously patronizes. Chicago
cr0ld. M
A tract of sulphur, one hundred ID
twenty-five acres in extent and
ON three to fifteen feet deep, is said
have been discovered in the Tara ~,
era district of New Zealand, where r,
e great volcanic CONFUSION occurred A
st year. According to the natives, il a,
Is beer known to them for years.-M.
Ledger. t.
1t has been calculated that in dig IN
ne n square perch of ground, with 81.
its of the usual Dimensions of 7x8 th
chcs, the spade is thrust into the st
ound 700 times; and that as each
'adeful of earth, if the spade pcne- ..s
ate, as it ought to. nine inches, q,
elghs on an average quite seventeen 81
'unds, there are 1l,9OO pounds of r.,
nth in Il perch nine inches deep.- IL
Budget.
In Yell County, Ark, last week, DIR
rs. Sarah Dimnitt was riding along ci,
e road with her little boy behind her, / s
d in passing a burning tree saw that he
was going to fall across the road. KIN
e screamed and the horse stopped dr.
when. quick MS lightning, she =.
npcd OIL, snatched her child and got
t OF the way just MS the tree came oil
down across the saddle, kill Ia,
! the horse instantly. Cincinnati IN